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I poked around in the boot partition. The kernel is ancient! Linux version 3.18.71-perf-gaf770dc
by fullstop 18d ago
I poked around in the boot partition. The kernel is ancient!
Linux version 3.18.71-perf-gaf770dc
- datakan 18d agoThe oldest supported kernel is 5.10 and that loses support in December. That's wild they are using a 3.X kernel
- iririririr 18d agoYou'd be surprised how many things you use daily that people still backport the bare minimum to clig to 2.4.x forever
- anitil 18d agoYeah I've seen plenty of kernels that start with a 2 with no forward path possible due to "we don't know how to get our driver working anymore"
- mrheosuper 18d agoI really hope those don't have access to any networks.
- iririririr 17d agogood chance the linux running in your high end phone's modem runs 2.x kernel. i dont deal with that anymorrle, but last one I saw with 2.x was the pixel 6 pro.
- mrheosuper 17d agoJust check, my 2YO phone runs kernel 6.6, not latest but i think good enough for production. Edited: I misunderstood what you mean, you were talking about the modem subsystem, sorry.
- 306bobby 17d agoI don't think you misunderstood, I think they're talking out their arse. Modems don't run Linux, they run RTOS operating systems. ShannonOS in the case of the Pixel 6 with a exynos modem
- 306bobby 17d agoThe pixel 6 pro runs ShannonOS an RTOS system, it's an exynos modem
- 306bobby 17d agoTo be fair if you could SLTS support by CIP (which is designed for things like this) you have 4.19 at least still maintained. 4.4 might still be too but I'd have to check
- incee 18d ago3.18.71-perf-gaf770dc is a Qualcomm Android vendor kernel from roughly late 2017. The 3.18 branch went fully EOL in 2019, so nothing after that was ever backported to it.
- tyrabound 18d ago2017 was also the year Flock was funded and founded and went through the YConbinator cohort. But you would have thought that by 2021 when Andreessen Horowitz funded them or at least by 2025 [1] when both further funded them, someone would have actually done some minor due diligence. Coincidentally too, 2025 was when the flock surveillance matrix went up all over the country almost immediately. We constantly hear that the magic of tech funding lies in the people, not even the product/service. These types of things always seem to uncover that that is effectively just a lie to cover up the ulterior motives of setting up a tyrannical surveillance matrix all around you … to protect the children, of course. [1] https://www.flocksafety.com/blog/flock-safety-secures-major-funding https://www.flocksafety.com/blog/flock-safety-secures-major-...
- Arrowmaster 18d agoIt's almost as if they paid a contractor to design the hardware back in 2017 and put all the funding into marketing(bribes) since then. Shocker.
- itomato 18d ago"It's only a problem if your definition of done makes it one".
- darksim905 18d agoInteresting that they are a YC Company. Does yC do any ethics vetting of saying "No, let's stop fascism before it spreads?"
- bigfatkitten 18d agoYC does no meaningful vetting at all. You can steal another YC entrant’s product and still get funded. https://deepdelver.substack.com/p/delve-fake-compliance-as-a-service-98a https://deepdelver.substack.com/p/delve-fake-compliance-as-a...
- tushar-r 18d ago>gaf770dc missing a d(gaf) sorry, had to get that out!